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Comparative Evaluation of the Efficacy of Stepwise Caries Excavation vs Indirect Pulp Capping in Preserving the Vitality of Deep Carious Lesions in Permanent Teeth of Pediatric Patients: An In Vivo Study

AIMS AND OBJECTIVES: To comparatively evaluate the clinical efficacy of stepwise caries excavation with indirect pulp capping (IPC) in managing the young permanent teeth in pediatric patients who have deep carious lesions. MATERIALS AND METHODS: Eighty-eight teeth (first/second permanent molars) wer...

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Autores principales: Manhas, Swati, Pandit, Inder Kumar, Gugnani, Neeraj, Gupta, Monika
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Publicado: Jaypee Brothers Medical Publishers 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8359879/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34434021
http://dx.doi.org/10.5005/jp-journals-10005-1874
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author Manhas, Swati
Pandit, Inder Kumar
Gugnani, Neeraj
Gupta, Monika
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description AIMS AND OBJECTIVES: To comparatively evaluate the clinical efficacy of stepwise caries excavation with indirect pulp capping (IPC) in managing the young permanent teeth in pediatric patients who have deep carious lesions. MATERIALS AND METHODS: Eighty-eight teeth (first/second permanent molars) were included and randomly divided into two groups: group I (stepwise caries excavation) and group II (IPC). For group I, i.e., stepwise caries excavation, in the initial visit, bulk caries removal was done from walls of the cavity, however, soft and infected dentin was left untouched on the pulpal floor. The final excavation was performed after 2 months. The dentin parameters like the color, the consistency, and the humidity of dentin were noted at the first and second visits. A final follow-up to assess the primary outcome, i.e., sustained pulp vitality, was done after 1 year. RESULTS: When both the groups were compared with each other using the Chi-squared test, a highly significant difference was found (p < 0.05) between them. The success rate of stepwise caries excavation (97.3%) was found to be significantly greater than IPC (82.4%). After doing statistical analysis, a significant difference between stepwise excavation at baseline and at re-entry for parameters like the color, the consistency, and the humidity (p < 0.05), where dentin was observed to be darker in color, harder in consistency, and drier to touch at re-entry was found. CONCLUSION: Stepwise caries excavation was considered a safer technique than IPC for preserving the vitality of young permanent teeth. Also, the clinical changes recorded during the re-entry in the case of stepwise caries excavation technique indicated the arrest of the carious process. CLINICAL SIGNIFICANCE: Pulp preservation is of utmost importance especially in the case of young permanent teeth which have open apex to aid in apexogenesis. Failure to do so in maintaining the vitality of pulp before root completion may lead to the unfavorable crown to root ratio resulting in thin dentinal walls which are prone to fracture. HOW TO CITE THIS ARTICLE: Manhas S, Pandit IK, Gugnani N, et al. Comparative Evaluation of the Efficacy of Stepwise Caries Excavation vs Indirect Pulp Capping in Preserving the Vitality of Deep Carious Lesions in Permanent Teeth of Pediatric Patients: An In Vivo Study. Int J Clin Pediatr Dent 2020;13(S-1):S92–S97.
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spelling pubmed-83598792021-08-24 Comparative Evaluation of the Efficacy of Stepwise Caries Excavation vs Indirect Pulp Capping in Preserving the Vitality of Deep Carious Lesions in Permanent Teeth of Pediatric Patients: An In Vivo Study Manhas, Swati Pandit, Inder Kumar Gugnani, Neeraj Gupta, Monika Int J Clin Pediatr Dent Research Article AIMS AND OBJECTIVES: To comparatively evaluate the clinical efficacy of stepwise caries excavation with indirect pulp capping (IPC) in managing the young permanent teeth in pediatric patients who have deep carious lesions. MATERIALS AND METHODS: Eighty-eight teeth (first/second permanent molars) were included and randomly divided into two groups: group I (stepwise caries excavation) and group II (IPC). For group I, i.e., stepwise caries excavation, in the initial visit, bulk caries removal was done from walls of the cavity, however, soft and infected dentin was left untouched on the pulpal floor. The final excavation was performed after 2 months. The dentin parameters like the color, the consistency, and the humidity of dentin were noted at the first and second visits. A final follow-up to assess the primary outcome, i.e., sustained pulp vitality, was done after 1 year. RESULTS: When both the groups were compared with each other using the Chi-squared test, a highly significant difference was found (p < 0.05) between them. The success rate of stepwise caries excavation (97.3%) was found to be significantly greater than IPC (82.4%). After doing statistical analysis, a significant difference between stepwise excavation at baseline and at re-entry for parameters like the color, the consistency, and the humidity (p < 0.05), where dentin was observed to be darker in color, harder in consistency, and drier to touch at re-entry was found. CONCLUSION: Stepwise caries excavation was considered a safer technique than IPC for preserving the vitality of young permanent teeth. Also, the clinical changes recorded during the re-entry in the case of stepwise caries excavation technique indicated the arrest of the carious process. CLINICAL SIGNIFICANCE: Pulp preservation is of utmost importance especially in the case of young permanent teeth which have open apex to aid in apexogenesis. Failure to do so in maintaining the vitality of pulp before root completion may lead to the unfavorable crown to root ratio resulting in thin dentinal walls which are prone to fracture. HOW TO CITE THIS ARTICLE: Manhas S, Pandit IK, Gugnani N, et al. Comparative Evaluation of the Efficacy of Stepwise Caries Excavation vs Indirect Pulp Capping in Preserving the Vitality of Deep Carious Lesions in Permanent Teeth of Pediatric Patients: An In Vivo Study. Int J Clin Pediatr Dent 2020;13(S-1):S92–S97. Jaypee Brothers Medical Publishers 2020 /pmc/articles/PMC8359879/ /pubmed/34434021 http://dx.doi.org/10.5005/jp-journals-10005-1874 Text en Copyright © 2020; Jaypee Brothers Medical Publishers (P) Ltd. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/© Jaypee Brothers Medical Publishers. 2020 Open Access This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and non-commercial reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) ) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.
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Comparative Evaluation of the Efficacy of Stepwise Caries Excavation vs Indirect Pulp Capping in Preserving the Vitality of Deep Carious Lesions in Permanent Teeth of Pediatric Patients: An In Vivo Study
title Comparative Evaluation of the Efficacy of Stepwise Caries Excavation vs Indirect Pulp Capping in Preserving the Vitality of Deep Carious Lesions in Permanent Teeth of Pediatric Patients: An In Vivo Study
title_full Comparative Evaluation of the Efficacy of Stepwise Caries Excavation vs Indirect Pulp Capping in Preserving the Vitality of Deep Carious Lesions in Permanent Teeth of Pediatric Patients: An In Vivo Study
title_fullStr Comparative Evaluation of the Efficacy of Stepwise Caries Excavation vs Indirect Pulp Capping in Preserving the Vitality of Deep Carious Lesions in Permanent Teeth of Pediatric Patients: An In Vivo Study
title_full_unstemmed Comparative Evaluation of the Efficacy of Stepwise Caries Excavation vs Indirect Pulp Capping in Preserving the Vitality of Deep Carious Lesions in Permanent Teeth of Pediatric Patients: An In Vivo Study
title_short Comparative Evaluation of the Efficacy of Stepwise Caries Excavation vs Indirect Pulp Capping in Preserving the Vitality of Deep Carious Lesions in Permanent Teeth of Pediatric Patients: An In Vivo Study
title_sort comparative evaluation of the efficacy of stepwise caries excavation vs indirect pulp capping in preserving the vitality of deep carious lesions in permanent teeth of pediatric patients: an in vivo study
topic Research Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8359879/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34434021
http://dx.doi.org/10.5005/jp-journals-10005-1874
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